From: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 22:09:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] ls-remote: add support for showing symrefs
Message-ID: <20160118220958.GJ7100@hank>
In-Reply-To: <20160118195346.GA9337@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On 01/18, Jeff King wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 02:51:59PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
>
> > It would be nice to also test that
> > "git ls-remote --symrefs --heads" shows "refs/heads/foo" as a symref.
> > But that cannot work with the current code, because upload-pack only
> > tells us about the symref HEAD, and not any others.
>
> Actually, I wonder if it is worth making a note of that in the new
> "--symref" documentation, so people do not report it is a bug that
> "ls-remote" does not show it. :)

I agree, I'll add that.  Thanks.

> -Peff

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Thomas